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Palestinian political detainee from Jenin camp - held without trial or charge - killed in occupation's prison
3/3/2025
Commission of Detainees' Affairs & Palestinian Prisoners' Society
Ramallah, Palestine - Israeli occupation authorities have disclosed the killing of a 40-year-old Palestinian political detainee from the Jenin refugee camp last week, who was being held in their Megiddo prison. The Palestinian General Authority of Civil Affairs was informed only this morning that the detainee Khaled Mahmoud Qassem Abdullah was martyred more than a week ago, on February 23.
The details of his killing remain unclear as occupation authorities continue to impose a lethal information blackout on the prisoners. Nevertheless, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs affirm that the Israeli occupation bears full responsibility for the killing of Khaled Abdullah and all other prisoners who were martyred in a myriad of horrific ways including sexual torture and rape.
Khaled Abdullah was arrested by occupation forces on November 9, 2023, and had been held since then under Israel’s notorious ‘administrative detention’ policy, without trial or charge. He was married and a father to four children. Two of Khaled’s brothers, Shadi and Iyad Abdullah, are also being held in Israel’s military prison system without trial or charge.
Khaled Abdullah is the latest Palestinian political detainee to be murdered by Israeli prison authorities and guards – whether directly or indirectly. He is the third Palestinian political prisoner to be killed within the span of the past week, bringing the number of identified martyred detainees since the start of the genocide to 61 people. At least 40 people of those were arrested from Gaza.
Since the start of the genocide, the rate of prisoners being killed inside the occupation’s prisons and military camps is unprecedented. Dozens more have been killed with the occupation refusing to reveal their fate or identities, leaving countless families in fear and psychological torture.
The total number of identified martyred detainees since the occupation of 1967 is 298 people. Additionally, the number of martyred prisoners whose bodies are being withheld by the occupation has risen to 70 people, 59 of whom have been abducted since the start of the genocide.
The occupation army only responds sporadically and arbitrarily to legal requests for information, and often uses the pretext of an ‘ongoing investigation’ to evade accountability, and to torture Palestinians both physically and mentally as a matter of policy. The Israeli army is the only official side able to reveal the fate of martyred Palestinian detainees since there is no evidence of their killing with the army continuing to withhold their bodies.
The Commission and the PPS stress that the rate of Palestinian detainees losing their lives is unprecedented and will only increase with time. Thousands of Palestinians are held behind bars undergoing a myriad of severe violations including torture, starvation, sexual assault, deprivation of medical treatment, unsanitary conditions leading grave and infectious diseases. The international community must act now to save the lives of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli custody and prevent them from being murdered
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Detainees in Megiddo prison are facing illness and hunger
. Detainees attended the visitation while being handcuffed
. Each detainee was allowed to 15 minutes of the visitation
. The lawyer was prevented from talking to detainees privately
*cases in point:
. Detainee Kamal Tharefa, 68, from Nablus.
He suffers from several diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, prostate and scabies. He also lost 30 kilograms of weight due to malnutrition.
. Detainee Walid Edaily, 24, from Nablus
He had a surgery to implant cornea. He has 20 stitches in his eye need to be removed, but the administration of prison refuses to let him see the doctor. He lost 55 kilograms of weight due to malnutrition.
. Detainee Ahmad Hasanat, 16, from Bethlehem
He suffers from scabies. He was isolated with 10 detainees in the same room without any treatment.
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Difficult Conditions faced by detainees in Shata Prison as Ramadan Approaches
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Detainee Saleh Nazzal suffers from deliberate medical neglect in Ofer prison
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■ Palestinian political detainee killed in Israeli occupation’s custody
26/2/2025
Commission of Detainees' Affairs & Palestinian Prisoners' Society
Ramallah, Palestine - Israeli occupation authorities have disclosed the killing of Palestinian political detainee Raafat Abu Fanouneh in their custody. Occupation authorities informed the Palestinian General Authority for Civil Affairs that Abu Fanouneh lost his life today, on February 26, 2025.
Raafat Adnan Abdulaziz Abu Fanouneh is a 34-year-old husband and father who was abducted by the occupation army from the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. He did not have any pre-existing health issues. The circumstances and manner in which he was killed remain unclear because occupation authorities have imposed an information blackout on the prisoners.
Abu Fanouneh was being held at the Ramla Prison and was recently transferred to the occupation’s Assaf Harofeh Hospital where he was announced dead. He was wounded by soldiers during his arrest, and his brother Shadi was also taken along with him. Occupation authorities refused to allow any lawyer visits to Abu Fanouneh during his time in detention, leaving his family in the dark for 16 months, before learning that he lost his life today. Since October 7, 2023, family visits have been completely halted.
Abu Fanouneh is the latest Palestinian to be killed in the occupation’s prisons and military camps in obscure ways that the Israeli army continues to conceal. With Abu Fanouneh, there have been 60 identified Palestinian political detainees who have been killed in custody since the start of the genocide in October 2023, at least 39 of them arrested from Gaza. Dozens more have been killed with the occupation refusing to reveal their fate or identities, leaving countless families in fear and psychological torture. The total number of identified martyred detainees since the occupation of 1967 is 297 people. The rate of killings in prisons and military camps is the highest historically.
The occupation army only responds sporadically and arbitrarily to legal requests for information, and often uses the pretext of an ‘ongoing investigation’ to evade accountability, and to torture Palestinians both physically and mentally as a matter of policy. The Israeli army is the only official side able to reveal the fate of martyred Palestinian detainees since there is no evidence of their killing with the army continuing to withhold their bodies.
The Commission and the PPS stress that the rate of Palestinian detainees losing their lives is unprecedented and will only increase with time. Thousands of Palestinians are held behind bars undergoing a myriad of severe violations including torture, starvation, sexual assault, deprivation of medical treatment, unsanitary conditions leading grave and infectious diseases. The international community must act now to save the lives of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli custody.
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Ongoing nightly inspections inside Gilboa Prison sections accompanied by assaults against detainees and severe beatings
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Commission of Detainees’ Affairs:
Ongoing nightly inspections inside Gilboa Prison sections accompanied by assaults against detainees and severe beatings
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The administration of the Russian Compound Prison deprives the sick detainee Sireen Saaedi from treatment
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Abu Al Hummus: We call our Egyptian and Qatari brothers to exert pressure on the Israeli authorities to stop breaching the ceasefire agreement and prisoner’s exchange
February 24, 2025
The head of the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Raed Abu Al Hummus, condemned the crime of the occupation authorities represented in refusing the release of the seventh group of prisoners, who where supposed to leave prisons last Saturday.
Abu Al Hummus emphasized that these practices confirm the inhumane and unethical mentality of the occupation, and that the manipulation and delay in release process caused a state of tension and distress to the relatives of prisoners. Moreover, he stated that the occupation's attempts to evade its commitments—after more than forty days of continuous compliance, which resulted in the release of hundreds of our heroic prisoners, including prominent leaders and symbols of the prisoners’ movement—will not weaken the determination and resilience of the Palestinian people. Hope will be there always until we receive all our heroes.
Abu Al Hummus called on our Egyptian and Qatari brothers to exert all forms of pressure to compel the negotiations team on behalf of the occupation to release the seventh group of prisoners, adhere to the terms of the agreement and to stop the unjustified manipulation, which reveals the extent of fragility of the occupation system.
Furthermore, he pointed out that the breaches recorded throughout the exchange deal, are accompanied by measures to divide the West Bank with more than 900 checkpoints and gates, and preventing citizens from arriving to Ramallah and Al Birah, especially in the days of release, which exposed the hatred and brutality of this occupation.
Abu Al Hummus confirmed that there is a close follow up with relevant parties regarding the release of the seventh group, in which Israel will be forced to implement within the next hours or days, and he also stated that the Egyptian efforts are continuous in this regard.
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We call our Egyptian and Qatari brothers to exert pressure on the Israeli authorities to stop breaching the ceasefire agreement and prisoner’s exchange
The head of the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs
Raed Abu Al Hummus
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"With the martyrdom of detainee Musab Haniya, the number of martyrs of the prisoner movement inside the occupation’s prisons since October of last year has reached 59, raising the total number of known martyrs of the prisoner movement since 1967 to 296. It is worth noting that there are dozens of martyrs among Gaza detainees who are victims of the crime of enforced disappearance."
February 24, 2025
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Occupation reveals martyrdom of Palestinian detainee seven weeks late
24/2/2025
Ramallah, Palestine – Israeli occupation authorities have disclosed the martyrdom of Palestinian political detainee Mus’ab Haniyeh, 35, in response to a legal request for information by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) about the man’s fate.
Haniyeh was killed on January 5, 2025, in Israeli custody. He had been arrested from Hamad city in the Gaza Strip 10 months prior, on March 3, 2024, in good health. He was a husband and father to a nine-year-old boy. The occupation refuses to divulge the manner in which Haniyeh was killed, or even where he was being held.
Haniyeh is the latest Palestinian to be killed in the occupation’s prisons and military camps in obscure ways that the Israeli army continues to conceal. With Haniyeh, there have been 59 identified Palestinian political detainees who have been killed in custody since the start of the genocide in October 2023, at least 38 of them arrested from Gaza. Dozens more have been killed with the occupation refusing to reveal their fate or identities, leaving countless families in fear and psychological torture. The total number of identified martyred detainees since the occupation of 1967 is 296 people. The rate of killings in prisons and military camps is the highest historically.
The occupation army only responds sporadically and arbitrarily to legal requests for information, and often uses the pretext of an ‘ongoing investigation’ to evade accountability, and to torture Palestinians both physically and mentally as a matter of policy. The Israeli army is the only official side able to reveal the fate of martyred Palestinian detainees since there is no evidence of their killing with the army continuing to withhold their bodies.
The Commission and the PPS stress that the rate of Palestinian detainees losing their lives is unprecedented and will only increase with time. Thousands of Palestinians are held behind bars undergoing a myriad of severe violations including torture, starvation, sexual assault, deprivation of medical treatment, unsanitary conditions leading grave and infectious diseases. The international community must act now to save the lives of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli custody.
Commission of Detainees' Affairs & Palestinian Prisoners' Society
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House demolition is a collective punitive measure against detainees and their relatives
February 19, 2025
The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club stated that the so-called Israeli supreme court has rejected a petition submitted by the family of detainee Hayel Daifullah, against the demolition order for their home. The order was issued by the Israeli military commander under the so-called "Mandate Emergency Regulations," which grant Israeli authorities the power to demolish the homes of Palestinian detainees accused of carrying out operations against Israeli forces, under the pretext of "deterrence."
The Commission and the Palestinian Society Prisoners’ Club emphasized that the policy of demolishing detainees' homes constitutes collective punishment, violating international law.
This policy is exclusively applied to Palestinians while Israeli settlers are exempted, in a blatant violation of Article 3 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Lawyers from the Commission and the Prisoners’ Club stated that the court rejected the family's request to limit the demolition to the room of detainee Hayel, who is accused of carrying out an aggressive attack against Israeli soldiers on Route 60, despite the fact that his family members had no connection to the incident.
The court also dismissed the family's plea to preserve the ceiling of the house, which contains support columns for a planned second floor intended for the detainee's son after his marriage, as demolishing the ceiling would cause significant damage to the young man and the family.
According to the court’s decision, the family has until February 26, 2025, to evacuate the home before its demolition.
In a related context, lawyers from the Commission and the Prisoners’ Club reported that Israeli authorities retracted their decision to demolish an entire apartment belonging to the family of detainee Ahmed Al-Haimouni from Hebron.
The family had previously been informed of the intention to demolish an entire floor that included both Al-Haimouni’s apartment and his uncle’s. However, following the family's objection to the demolition of the uncle’s apartment—given that the detainee had no connection to that part of the house—the court approved the exclusion of the uncle’s apartment from demolition.
The decision was based on an architectural plan attached to the demolition notice, which clearly showed that the shared wall between the two apartments lacked any doors, proving that the units were separate with distinct entrances. Nevertheless, the court upheld the decision to demolish Al-Haimouni’s family apartment, which is set to be destroyed by an explosion.
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Escalated actions against 13 female detainees held in Damoun prison
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Israeli occupation responsible for lives of Palestinian detainees in Ofer Prison
Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)
16/2/25
Ramallah, Palestine – Following a large-scale assault on Palestinian political prisoners held in Israel’s notorious Ofer Prison, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) hold the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the lives of the thousands of detainees held there.
The occupation’s prison administration said in a statement moments ago that their prison special repression units raided the cells of Palestinian detainees in Ofer, claiming that the detainees “disrupted” a “military tour of the prison” (from inside their cells). Such raids are known to be violent, oppressive and humiliating for the detainees.
The Commission and the PPS appeal to the mediators to put the issue of the severe crimes taking place against Palestinian prisoners, on the negotiating table. The systematic killing, torture, medical negligence, enforced starvation, severe beatings and the many other crimes being committed must be stopped. Since the genocide in Gaza in October 2023, at least 58 Palestinian political prisoners have been killed by Israeli prison guards.
We direct an urgent appeal to the international human rights system to fulfill the responsibilities for which it was created in the first place.
There are more than 10,000 Palestinians still held in the occupation’s custody. This figure does not include all those arrested from Gaza and have been forcibly disappeared.
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Report: New testimonies of Palestinian political detainees arrested from Gaza reveal severe abuses
Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) & the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs
February 12, 2025
Ramallah, Palestine - It has been 1.5 years since the genocide in occupied Gaza. Systematic crimes against Palestinian political prisoners continue unabated. The testimonies of Palestinian detainees arrested from Gaza continue to reveal the horrors perpetrated by the occupation, particularly during arrest and transfer of detainees to Israeli central prisons and military detention camps.
This new report is based on lawyers’ visits that took place in February 2025 to 18 Palestinian political prisoners being held at the Naqab Prison and the Sde Teiman military camp, which have become infamous for the abuses that take place there. It is also based on the dozens of testimonies lawyers’ and prisoners’ institutions gathered over the past several months. The most prominent crimes committed were torture, severe beatings, starvation and humiliation in all its forms. One of the detainees sustained broken bones as a result of being beaten while shackled, and he remained for a long period of time without treatment. Authorities continued to shackle him even after his severe injury.
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Detainee Omar Abu Libdah suffers from severe detention conditions in Megiddo prison
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Injured detainee Mutaz Masri suffers from deliberate medical neglect in Ofer prison
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■ Palestinian prisoners’ institutions: 580 cases of arrests in the occupied West Bank during January 2025 alone
Briefing paper prepared by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.
February 10, 2025
Ramallah, Palestine - In January, Israeli occupation forces carried out approximately 580 arrests in the West Bank, with the highest number of arrests recorded in Jenin and its refugee camp, which have been under an unprecedented aggression for the past 21 days.
There were 17 cases of arrest among women overall in January, and 60 cases of arrest of children below 18 years of age. Meanwhile, hundreds of Palestinians have been detained during field interrogations.
It was announced (by occupation authorities) in January 2025 that four identified Palestinian political prisoners had been killed in the Israeli occupation’s custody. Two of them were from Gaza and had been martyred months prior to the occupation’s admittance.
By the start of the ceasefire on January 19, 2025, the number of cases of arrests in the West Bank since the start of the genocide, reached 14,500. This figure does not include the number of arrests from Gaza, which are estimated to be in the thousands.
*Figures include those who remain in the occupation’s custody and those who were later released.
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Occupation denies temporary release of Palestinian female detainee to mourn father's death
February 9, 2025
Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) and Commission of Detainees' Affairs
Ramallah, Palestine - The father of Palestinian female political prisoner Shaden Qous has unexpectedly passed away in a tragic accident. Shaden, a Jerusalemite, has been held behind bars for just over a month, since 6/1/2025. She was first detained at The Russian Compound detention center (al-Mascobiyeh) where she was interrogated before being transferred to the Damon central women’s prison. She has not yet been charged with any kind of offense under Israel’s oppressive military court system, which is run by occupation soldiers. Shaden is a student at Birzeit University and a professional dancer.
The Israeli occupation has historically never allowed a Palestinian detainee to be released temporarily on compassionate grounds to attend a family member’s funeral, as a matter of policy. Israel uses its power to rid Palestinian prisoners of bidding their loved ones farewell as a form of psychological and emotional torture. Since the genocide in Gaza, dozens of Palestinian detainees - particularly those from Gaza - lost their family members in Israel’s onslaught, and were forbidden from seeing them for the last time.
Palestinian political prisoners must be afforded the human right to mourn the loss of their loved ones with their families. The current conditions for Palestinian prisoners are the worst in history. Dozens of detainees are being killed behind bars, many in obscure circumstances involving severe torture and ill-treatment. The more time passes with thousands of Palestinians in the custody of the occupation, the greater the risk to their lives and fates.
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■ Update on the number of Palestinian political prisoners for the month of February 2025, noting that this data does not include all detainees from Gaza
■ More than 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners
■ Female prisoners: 15 women, including three identified female prisoners from Gaza.
■ Children: No less than 365 minors.
■ Administrative detainees (held without trial or charge): 3369 people
■ Detainees from Gaza classified by the occupation’s prison administration as “illegal combatants”: 1802 people.
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The majority of detainees in Israeli prisons suffer from fatigue and weight loss
Some detainees fainted and didn’t receive medical examinations
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Sick detainee Mohammad Ghanem suffers from systematic medical neglect in Israeli prisons